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176-10037-10120 | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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176-10037-10120
National Security Files: Robert W. Komer

CIA Information Telegram
12/00/1963
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National Security Files, Box 430: Kennedy, Reactions to Death

Miscellaneous, 11/22/63-6/18/64. Box 5

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“BELK REPORT NO. TDCS"3/566, 658
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SUBJECT COMMENTS OF YUGOSLAV. AND BLOC DIPLOMATSASS. - DATE DISTR,

Country soviet aroc / —_

6 PecRHeEs ae

ON THE PROBABLE EFFECT OF KENNEDY ase lf
SINATION ON -EAST=WEST RELATIONS — Duna ! PRECEDENCE , omy
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DATEOF 2529 -novemeer 1963. FCRREST Adererenc: oi,
INFO. —JOHNSON ea
PLACE & GREECE, aTHENS (28 Novem 2 DECEM 2 veckibER'1963)
DATE ACO.
APPRAISAL 2 (THAT STATEMENTS ARE ACCURATEL teers) FIELD REPORTNO. EKA ae

sis UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS*AREIDEEINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,

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PELIERG BLOC DIPLOMATS IN ATHENS,

SOURCE A GREEK POLITICAL oBseRveR (8) wiTH-©
FROM THE DIPLOMATS MENTIONED acvow.- SMITH, WM. Y.

FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF (PORTION GARBLED-BE ING SERVICED)” BEING TAKEN BY SOVBLOC
AND YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATS IN. GREEK CIRCLES:
1, ON 25 NOVEMBER 63, YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR TO GREECE PEKO
_ DAPCEVIC EXPRESSED HOPE THAT ASSASSINATION .OF KENNEDY WOULD NOT
CHANGE. THE INTERNATIONAL ATMOSPHERE, ADDING ‘THAT HE 1S CERTAIN
SOVIET. UNION, IS WELL DISPOSED TO CONTINUE FRIENDLY CONTACTS WITH
WEST. DAPCEVIC SAID THERE HAS BEEN "A GREAT PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE"
ON PART OF SOVIET PEOPLE IN PAST FEW YEARS FROM EARLIER ATTITUDE

THAT ALL AMERICANS AND PARTICULARLY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ARE WAR

MONGERS TO CURRENT THINKING THAT AMERICANS, - LIKE SOVIETS,

" GROUP I
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REALLY WANT PEACE, ZENITH OF THIS CHANGE. CAME WHEN-UNITED STATES

ANNOUNCED IT. WAS WILLING ‘TO SELL WHEAT.T0- SOVIET UNION, ACCORDING
“TO DAPCEVIC, THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, MADE “TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON ‘SOVIET
PEOPLE, AND THEIR FEELING.1S NOW SO FAVORABLE TOWARD AMERICANS

THAT EVEN IF SOV{ET LEADERSHIP WANTED TO REVERSE THIS FEELING,

IT COULD NOT EASILY, DO SO.

ON 26 NOVEMBER, CZECH FIRST. SECRETARY. VAKLAV SVESTKA

STATED THAT desea EMBASSY." IN “ATHENS ‘HAD ‘NOT YET RECEIVED ‘REACTION
OF PRAGUE TO “THE ASSASSINATION, BUT FEELING OF, CZECH EMBASSY

PEOPLE IN ATHENS WAS. THAT US POLICY WOULD NOT CHANGE, MATERIALLY.

SVESTKA. EXPRESSED CONCERN ‘THAT ASSASSINATION WILL HAVE DELAYING.
~ ACTION ON IMPROVED. EAST-WEST RELATIONS: -. UNDER KENNEDY. THINGS

WERE MOVING QUICKLY TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING, AND CHANGE OF PRESIDENT
“NOW WILL OF. NECESSITY SLOW DOWN ‘THE COURSE OF EVENTS BECAUSE

{PERSONAL -FACTOR™: 1S: NOW MISSING. KENNEDY HAD DEVELOPED CONTACTS
WET SOVIET LEADERSHIP AND ACHIEVED ACCEPTANCE OF. SOVBLOC {PORTION
GARBLED “POPULATIONS AS.-PEACE ‘LOVING MAN JOHNSON HAS :TO ESTABLISH

THIS: FOR HIMSELF, NOW, AND IT WILL. TAKE SOME TIME. _

3. ON 29 NOVEMBER, SOVIET FIRST: SECRETARY VITALIY, NOVIKOY
- STATED’ THAT SOWfETS DO.NOT EXPECT IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN US FOREIGN
.POL|CY BECAUSE WITH ONLY ONE YEAR BEFORE ELECTIONS JOHNSON: AS.
NON-ELECTED PRESIDENT 18 NOT LIKELY TO; jCHANGE. BASIC KENNEDY

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POLICIES, SOVIETS ARE ANXIOUS, HOWEVER. ‘OVER FUTURE EAST-WEST
RELATIONS, ASSASSINATION CLEARLY, SHOWS RADICAL. RIGHT-WING ELEMENTS
ARE STRONG, HAVE SUPPORTERS IN LOCAL POLICE AND POLITICAL. CIRCLES
AND ARE WILLING TO FIGHT: FOR THEIR IDEALS, IT ALSO REVEALS;
~-NOVIKOV SAID, STRENGTH OF REACTION IW. WWERICA’TO KENNEDY. POLICIES
SOVIET PEOPLE FEAR THAT RIGHT-WING WHEL BE DOMI NANT.
Ay ON. 29 NOVEMBER, RUMANIAN AMBASSADOR MIRCEA: BALANESCU SAID
‘a was, CERTAIN “THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE (N-BLOC POLICY VISeA=VIS
WEST AND ANY INCREASE IN. TENS/ON WOULD. BE, RESULT OF CHANGED
ANERICAN POLICY. |
5. FIELD. DISSEM, STATE ARMY WAVY AIR’ EUCOM GINCNELM CINCSOUTH
(PERSONAL).
6. HEADQUARTERS COMMENT? MISSING PORTIONS WILL BE DISSEMINATED ONLY iF

THEY MATERIALLY AFFECT THE SENSE OF THIS REPORT.

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